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The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths.
C-Boy (died June 2018, age ~14) was a lion in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. [1] [2] He is known for having survived an attack from a pack of three male lions, nicknamed "The Killers", in August 2009. [3] He later nearly succumbed to infection after the attack. A decade later, C-Boy was found dead due to unknown causes. [1]
The Man-eaters of Tsavo is a semi-autobiographical book written by Anglo-Irish military officer and hunter John Henry Patterson.Published in 1907, [1] it recounts his experiences in East Africa while supervising the construction of a railroad bridge over the Tsavo river in Kenya, in 1898.
The Man-eater of Mfuwe was a sizeable male Southern African lion (Panthera leo melanochaita) responsible for the deaths of six people. Measuring 3.2 metres (10 ft) long and standing at 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) tall at the shoulders, with a weight of 249 kilograms (500 lbs), [1] it is the largest man-eating lion on record.
The Lions, not surprisingly, lost that game and then went on to lose the next week to finish 0-10. Columbia was in the midst of another losing streak of over 20 games.
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Of adult male lions that were tagged inside the park, 72% were killed through sport hunting on areas near the park. [19] During 2013, 49 hunted lion carcasses were exported from Zimbabwe as trophies; [6] the 2005–2008 Zimbabwe hunt "off-take" (licensed kills) average was 42 lions per year. [22]
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